“Change comes from within” is a bad heuristic for self-improvement. We evolved to adapt to environmental pressures, so if you wish to develop as a person, develop your surroundings into an environment that will require you to become who you wish to be.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
But if we're developing our environment into one that would push us to become who we want to be, then we are still the initiator of the chain of events that would eventually lead to our self-improvement ie the thing that triggered the cascade of change still came from within us
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Replying to @chrys_aliss
Change only truly comes from within if libertarian free will exists, which I see no evidence for. But even if it does come from within, this fact, on its own, would be a poor philosophy to live by.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
I don't think(based on my limited understanding of this) that we have strong evidence *against* free will either. Why resort to such absolutism wrt free will vs determinism? I personally find myself leaning towards soft determinism/middle ground. Keeps me happier too!
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*Libertarian* free will is quite illogical. It basically requires a belief in magic (i.e. a mind that can "cause itself").
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